Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS testified to the House Intelligence Committee on November 8 and 14, 2017. The committee voted unanimously to release the testimony today.

Many experts are reporting that the testimony is fascinating to read. The testimony covers the facts discovered as Simpson's firm began looking into the financial dealings of the Trump Organization and the Trump campaign. Simpson asserts that he was very surprised when he began to investigate and found so many potential cases of money laundering:

" ... we threw a line in the water and Moby Dick came back, and we didn't know what to do with it at first."

According to Buzzfeed News, the Haitian government asserted in the 1980s that ousted dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," laundered stolen treasury funds when he bought a Trump Tower apartment for $446,875 cash in August 1983. Duvalier used a Panama shell company called Lasa Trade and Finance to buy the apartment. Trump signed the deed of sale.

In February, multiple news outlets reported that Paul Manafort’s daughter appears to have been the victim of a cyber attack that exposed a blackmail attempt on Manafort while he was serving as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman.The texts show that Ukrainian lawmaker Sergei Leschenko claimed to have evidence of Manafort’s business dealings with ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych, and of a meeting between Trump and Yanukovych associate Serhiy Tulub.

(Photo Credit: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images )Now Manafort has a new scandal to worry about. The Associated Press reported exclusively Thursday that agents of the Treasury Department have obtained information relating to Manafort’s transactions at the Bank of Cyprus, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who was not authorized to speak publicly. The Treasury Department is pursuing an investigation into corruption Manafort may have been involved with in Ukraine.

Paul Manafort worked as campaign chairman for the Trump campaign from March until August of 2016. He was instrumental in shepherding the candidate through the critical time before, during, and after the Republican National Convention. He has also been a focus of the FBI investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign and administration coordinated with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 presidential campaign.

Manafort, active in the campaigns of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole, has also lobbied on behalf of many dictators around the world. He has worked for guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi of Angola, Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, and Viktor Yanukovych, Russian-backed former leader of Ukraine.

Federal prosecutors have been interested in Manafort’s finances since it was discovered that a ledger belonging to Yanukovych contained an entry showing he had made secret payments to Manafort. The payments appear to have been made in 2009.

Cyprus is known to have been a haven for money laundering by Russian billionaires.

Manafort is not the only Trump team member with ties to the Bank of Cyprus. According to The Guardian, Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary, presided over a deal with Artem Avetisyan, a Russian banker with ties to Vladimir Putin and Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, in 2015. At the time, Sberbank was under U.S. and European Union sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea.